Sentence Examples

Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint's Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white spruce trees, and toadstools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alderberry glows like eyes of imps, the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild holly berries make the beholder forget his home with their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, too fair for mortal taste.

It was interesting seeing that strange waxwork of a body that could have no connection with my lively laughing father.

Make a waxwork of your hands at Handy Waxworks opposite.

An old waxwork from Madame Tussaud 's: greasy, chipped, caked in paint, smiling glassy-eyed back at you in close-up.

Prince Harry looked dashing and had women all over him in central London - as his new waxwork was unveiled at Madame Tussauds.